Day: December 6, 2021

Minister of Public Works and Housing, Yahya Kasbi, on Monday took part in the 12th Bosphorus Summit in Turkey’s commercial capital Istanbul.

The two-day event, organized by the International Cooperation Platform (ICP), is held under the theme of “Challenges for a Better World,” with top officials, experts and academics discussing foreign economic relations, investing in Islamic finance, climate change and cyber security.

Various agreements and partnerships are expected to be concluded between institutions, organizations and countries participating in the summit.

SOURCE: Jordan News Agency

The value of certificates of origin issued by the Amman Chamber of Commerce (ACC) in the first 11 months of 2021 totaled JD659 million compared with JD836 million in the same period of 2020, ACC announced on Monday.

The chamber said in a statement it issued 34,054 certificates of origin in 2021, compared with 30,640 certificates in 2020,

The ACC noted that a total of 9,157 certificates were issued for shipments exported to Saudi Arabia, followed by the UAE with 4,572, Oman with 2,215, Iraq with 1,384, and Egypt with 1,047.

In terms of value, Iraq topped the list of export destinations with JD185 million worth of goods and commodities, followed by Saudi Arabia with JD70 million and Egypt and the UAE with JD60 million and JD52 million, respectively.

SOURCE: Jordan News Agency

The Ministry of Interior on Monday announced that its service portfolio is now fully digital, becoming the first government agency to complete an end-to-end digital transformation.

Minister Mazen Farraya told a ceremony concluding the fifth and final phase of his ministry’s digitization project that the total shift to online service platforms is a “quantum leap” in government work, which, he added, will ensure a better experience for all service recipients, whether citizens or foreigners.

He stressed that the completion of the project would not have been possible without the cooperation and efforts of other stakeholders, including the Ministry of Economy and Entrepreneurship and the Jordan Free and Development Zones Group.

According to Farraya, the ministry now offers a total of 51 online services, of which more than 500,000 service recipients benefitted, indicating that about 325,000 applications and service requests have been processed so far using these channels.

SOURCE: Jordan News Agency